Concise ShadowGroup Powershell Scripts

The definition of a shadowgroup is simply the synchronization of members in an Active Directory OU to the memberships of an Active Directory Group.

Thanks goes to David K. Sutton for his post at ravingroo.com.

One caveat of his concise script was that Get-ADGroupMember, by default, has a limit of 5000 objects returned. Other internet sources reported an easy workaround by using the member property of the get-adgroup cmdlet.

So I present to you modified versions of a concise ShadowGroup powershell script. One no-frills version, and another with email support.

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ESXi boot slow/stalled/stuck at "iscsi_vmk loaded successfully"

Problem: ESXi boot slow/stalled/stuck at “iscsi_vmk loaded successfully”

Cause: Unfortunately this is normal due to:

• Dynamic Discovery.
• Software iSCSI Adapter LoginTimeout=XX causes XX second timeout for each Dynamic discovery.

Solution 1: Leave it alone !! (It's just slow.)
Solution 2: Reduce LoginTimeout (Dell recommends LoginTimeout=60, but that's a "long wait". Try 20.)
Solution 3: Make it all static. (Meh, too much work.)

Additional troublshooting: Alt+F12 for console logs.
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